I have a few theories (naturally).

Theory number 1.

At least three people the Doctor cared about have been uploaded into computer systems. River, Oswin and Clara. (Oswin was uploaded into the Dalek pathweb […]

Thanks @ardaraith, I hadn’t seen that before. Very interesting. There are distinct Dream Lord undertones there, and of course it seems to support the theory that the whole season is taking place in the Doctor’s […]

A passing thought… Clara Oswin Oswald. COO. Chief Of Operations / Chief Operating Officer. ‘I’m the boss’.

Actually, now that I re-read your post, @Bluesqueakpip, I think I’ve just said what you said, but less concisely 🙂

@Bluesqueakpip (message #7819) – your mention of Thomas Thomas and the JttCotT time loop in the same post has set me thinking… Maybe this ties in with my thought after JttCotT that the Doctor is now in the habit […]

@Shazzbot, thanks.

@HTPBDET — I think the ‘Doctor’s origin story is that he originates from the story’ could work. I’m willing to believe the author of Blink and Asylum of the Daleks could pull it off, […]

I’ve also been enjoying the discussion of Omega. The militant future Anglicans had an Omega logo, as has been pointed out. This is probably appropriate for a religious organisation. Apart from the religious […]

There’s been lots of good stuff to think about in this forum since my last visit.

One of the things that has especially caught my imagination is the importance of stories and storytelling in the past few […]

@Juniperfish, agree with you re the Doctor’s apparent lack of empathy in Hide. In JttCotT he seems pretty  cheerful when he burns the message into the Big Friendly Button, knowing it’s going to burn / has already burnt Clara.

I’ve finally caught up on all the messages. Enjoying everyone’s thoughts a lot.

Here’s a few brief ideas about the woman in the shop. (They might even really be brief this time!)

The idea that Clara saw the […]

@HaveYouFedTheFish (message #7048) – re the illustration(?) in the book, which seems to reveal to Clara that ‘the Doctor’ is not the Doctor’s name.

The rather strained chain of reasoning I was following was […]

I’ll try to keep it brief (that’s a struggle I sometimes lose). [On re-reading this just before hitting ‘Submit’ — I see I’ve lost it again.]

Sorry, I haven’t had time to read anything on this forum yet. By […]

@ardaraith – good call on the Doctor drinking whiskey, I’d completely forgotten about that. He’s come a long way from having to spit out a glass of wine in The Impossible Astronaut (IIRC).

@bluesqueakpip, I […]

I’ve just rewatched Asylum of the Daleks, bearing in mind my favourite theories, and of course the later episodes up to Hide.

Now more than ever I think either:
a) the Doctor is a Dalek, or
b) the Doctor will […]

@Bluesqueakpip, there’s another famous ‘name of the rose’ reference besides Eco’s book and the movie — in a work alluded to in Hide:

What’s in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell […]

Love and fear are once again fighting it out at the core of the story. As has been noted, it seems odd that the Doctor would be afraid of the crooked man. The instinctive fear of the alien, as well as his apparent […]

@Craig, I could imagine them not even attempting to make it look like ‘modern’ Doctor Who, but making Matt Smith’s interactions with the former Doctors resemble the old episodes. A sufficiently clever writer could […]

@HTPBDET, re your list of theories. I may have exceeded my bonkers theory quota for this week, but I have another one, a sort of variation on your number 5.

In this theory, Dalek-Oswin manage to teleport […]

@Juniperfish, I think you’re definitely on to something with the songs. It’s been a while since I saw it, but were there any Christmas carols in The Snowmen?

I’ve been looking at the lyrics of Vienna (one of my […]

I enjoyed Cold War very much — I liked the last two episodes as well, but this is the first time since The Snowmen that I’ve rewatched an episode the next day.

Lately I’ve been thinking about one of my […]